That really turned out nice, i prefer the rad mounted in the original position.I have not had any cooling issues in my car with the rad mounted that way, and my car is turbo charged as you know.Let me know when you get her running,i think that is going to be a nice running car.

Minsuki.

As of 9pm last night, the motor is in!!!! Here are a few shots and playing around with where I want to mount the radiator..

 

Not intending to "crap" on anything, I hadn't planned to comment on the weight, until the "Add lightness"  was thrown in;  It was just the opposite of what I was thinking, so I said so.  I know a lot of folks don't care about adding weight, just like many don't care about fuel economy...I really don't understand why;  then I guess a lot of people don't understand a bunch of things that I don't care about, like comfort, or noise; I have 7 cars and not one has AC, heater, clock or radio. I don't even have a sink in the kitchen; don't need one, so I tore it out.  We all consider different things important I guess......any one out there that doesn't care about weight in their Mini, is welcome to this fine boot floor replacement panel: 

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i know that weight is important in a race type car, but in a street car i do not see a few pounds making a big change

Well I don't want to say I don't care about the weight, but yes they were made a little bit overkill, I have one frame left I may be able to weigh. Otherwise I sold 4 of them last week and only have 1 frame left and I am not planning at this point to make any more due to my health and other commitments this year. As far as an Automatic Suzuki fitting in this frame, I don't see it happening without a decent amount of customization to this frame. With that being said, I test fitted it, and it just didn't make sense to hack it all up to fit a Automatic tranny, it would be best I believe to modify the Stock subframe, that's the conclusion Minsuki/Chris came up with when he was the garage. The tranny from front to back is a decent size bigger.

Anyway, I got a stainless 3 into 1 header, and a nice pressure / turbo hat for the tbi to clean things up under the hood. I'm not knocking on anyone else, just posting what I'm doing.

 

jeez steve - do you have to crap on everything? - Why don't we compare the welds?

Lightness?  Where?  I would bet that frame weighs close to double the stock one.  Please post the weight and prove me wrong. (a stock frame weighs 37 pounds).  With the lighter Geo lump, you can get away with even less than stock frame weight. A well designed conversion frame for this motor should not need to weigh more than 30-32 pounds.

Colin Chapman would be proud as you have added lightness - by as much as one adult - YES! Is that the manual trans - I think we all want to see the auto going in too.

Thanks, I caught it before it was to late. Never had brand new cones on the front. I hope they settle a bit. I guess I will have to wait to get the motor in there to get some weight on it.

Dont forget to install bump stops, easier to do now than after everything is put together. 

Paint set up, and then went to building up the suspension. Got the frame back in the car, started building up the brakes, and we went and picked up another low milage Geo Motor on Saturday. Hope to get this thing rolling around in a weekend or two.

Small update, got the frame back out, all the final welds and gussets were made. Now it is drying after using some VHT Chassis Satin Black paint. Stripped his engine bay/firewall and gave that a fresh coat of paint. Hopefully this saturday we will get the frame back in the car with all the suspension bits and new 8.4 brake kit. Mind you I am working on 3 other cars as well right now, so it's been a little hard to juggle. Trying to get this 62 done in 2-3 weekends, then I can focus a bit more on his car, and then onto the Minor and my car for the SC Efi kit. Fun times! Look for pics next week.

Sneak peak, so to make a long story short, we ended up using the 2 Mini Motor Mounts for the rear, and the front right mount, and the stock Geo Motor Mount for the left mount. We test fitted the frame and the engine last Friday, finally!

I have those universal hotrod/v8 rubber mounts that bolt though a plate. Hoping this Friday to finally have everything else pulled. Would be great to have some garage space again. Fun times!

just remember guys the g10 is a naturally vibrating engine, i went thru putting stiffer mounts first, but the vibration was too much....i had to go back to the original g10 mounts, the ones that look like a donut....they isolate the vibration better......good luck

gee....i wish i had a morris minor        chuck

Hey just checking on you,i know you have alot to do i just want to make sure your not resting too much,lol.Picked up a catalog on mounts from one of my suppliers,looking to see what would be the best mount for the that G10 install.I'll let you know what i come up with.

Minsuki.

gee...... i wish i had a morris minor  ;(

Minsuki! C'mon man, yes I have been working on it. I've been pulling it all out, it's about as much fun as watching water come to a boil. Going to have a go at it tomorrow with my bud and see where I get, I am suppose to pick up a portable 10'x20' garage as well on Friday. Funny how a guys garage can never be big enough. Everything is as you left it. Hopefully playing with the Minor tomorrow some more, got the drop spindles and blocks in yesterday to lower her down another 3 inches.

Hey MTS,have you taken the subframe out of the mini and put the upper control arms on along with the hubs?

Minsuki.